Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring KVM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited KVM over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 675 800 942
Rank change year-on-year +125 +142 +161
Permanent jobs citing KVM 9 85 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.086% 0.043%
As % of the System Software category 0.17% 0.69% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 6 76 36
10th Percentile £44,375 - £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £24,240 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £25,420 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +106.53% -57.63% -14.29%
75th Percentile £62,382 £50,063 £76,250
90th Percentile £79,505 £63,750 £79,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £24,811 £60,000
% change year-on-year +101.52% -58.65% -4.00%

All System Software Skills
UK

KVM falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 5,388 12,269 15,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.33% 12.48% 15.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,933 9,741 10,518
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £27,915
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -1.79%
75th Percentile £78,750 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing KVM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for KVM in the UK

KVM
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing KVM.

Salary trend for KVM in the UK

KVM
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing KVM over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for KVM in the UK

KVM
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing KVM within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +144 8 £50,000 +101.52% 14
England +123 7 £58,603 +125.39% 23
North of England +81 5 £58,603 +136.20% 2
Work from Home +174 4 £55,000 - 6
North West +29 3 £58,603 +136.20% 2
Scotland +118 2 £50,000 +103.87% 3
Yorkshire +71 2 - -
South East +96 1 £42,500 +63.46% 1
London +92 1 £90,000 +16.13% 12

KVM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Apache
1 2 (22.22%) Confluence
1 2 (22.22%) Tomcat
1 2 (22.22%) WebSphere
1 2 (22.22%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) GitHub
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (11.11%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) SAN
2 3 (33.33%) DNS
2 3 (33.33%) iSCSI
2 3 (33.33%) LAN
2 3 (33.33%) NAS
2 3 (33.33%) VPN
2 3 (33.33%) WAN
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (22.22%) FCoE
3 2 (22.22%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (22.22%) Firewall
3 2 (22.22%) FTP
3 2 (22.22%) HTTP
3 2 (22.22%) HTTPS
3 2 (22.22%) Multicast
3 2 (22.22%) SSH
3 2 (22.22%) SSL
4 1 (11.11%) DHCP
4 1 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (11.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MySQL
1 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
1 2 (22.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Unix Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Unix Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) EDI
1 2 (22.22%) LAMP
1 2 (22.22%) LDAP
1 2 (22.22%) Loki
1 2 (22.22%) Middleware
1 2 (22.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Replication
2 3 (33.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (22.22%) Clustering
3 2 (22.22%) Life Science
3 2 (22.22%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
3 2 (22.22%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) CentOS
2 3 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (22.22%) AIX
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (22.22%) Solaris
3 2 (22.22%) Unix
4 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) High Availability
1 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (33.33%) Server Virtualisation
1 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Fintech
2 2 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (22.22%) Network Management
2 2 (22.22%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (22.22%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (22.22%) Privileged Access Management
2 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
2 2 (22.22%) Storage Management
2 2 (22.22%) Threat Detection
2 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) AWK
1 2 (22.22%) C
1 2 (22.22%) C++
1 2 (22.22%) Java
1 2 (22.22%) Korn
1 2 (22.22%) Perl
1 2 (22.22%) PHP
1 2 (22.22%) Python
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 2 (22.22%) NFS
3 2 (22.22%) Postfix
3 2 (22.22%) Sendmail
3 2 (22.22%) SRDF
3 2 (22.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (22.22%) vSphere
3 2 (22.22%) Xen
4 1 (11.11%) Docker
4 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Ansible
2 2 (22.22%) Grafana
2 2 (22.22%) Nagios
2 2 (22.22%) Nessus
2 2 (22.22%) Puppet
3 1 (11.11%) OpenNebula
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) VMware
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) Oracle
3 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
4 2 (22.22%) Cisco
4 2 (22.22%) EMC
4 2 (22.22%) F5
4 2 (22.22%) Google
4 2 (22.22%) IBM
4 2 (22.22%) NetApp
4 2 (22.22%) SAP
4 2 (22.22%) Tenable
5 1 (11.11%) Broadcom
5 1 (11.11%) Dell